Breaking Free has kindly given us permission to publish their Protest Summary issued on April 7. “Breaking Free, Inc., was established in October 1996, by Vednita Carter, Executive Director, as a non-profit organization serving women and girls involved in systems of prostitution/sex trafficking and other battered women who have been involved in the criminal justice […]
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Porn and prostitution have long teamed up to exploit women. Porn tells men what to fantasize about. Some then go to prostituted women to act it out. For example, you can buy the following film today (number 3 in the top 100) from Amazing.net/GoFlix.com: Also on sale today is “Fuck My Mom & Me #6” […]
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The Polaris Project has kindly given us permission to reprint this April 3 article from their blog, The North Star. The Polaris Project combats slavery and human trafficking. Author Katherine Chon is the president of Polaris Project. The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp? (Part One) by Katherine Chon Last year, I spoke with Nomi Levenkron, […]
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Michelangelo Signorile (Wikipedia, website) is the author of Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power. In this passage, he describes how activists cut through the fog of irrelevant First Amendment arguments to get Hollywood moguls to take responsibility for their messages: We were under siege at the time, and I was […]
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We are pleased to publicize this announcement from Stop Porn Culture: Stop Porn Culture will be holding our next slideshow training at Wheelock College in Boston, MA. It will begin on Friday, June 5 at 5pm and end on Sunday, June 7 at 3pm. The cost is $50, with no one turned away for lack […]
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Online Media Daily reported on March 11: Company CEO Jim Buckmaster said this week in a blog post that the site has seen a 90-95% decline in “erotic services” ads in five large cities since it began demanding more information from advertisers last year… Last week, the Cook County sheriff sued Craigslist for creating a […]
Rain and Thunder has kindly made this interview available for us to share with you. You may also download it as a PDF (33KB). Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Issue 41, […]
We are pleased to present Ellaraine Lockie’s “She Reads Virginia Woolf”, the winning entry in the 2008 Skysaje Enterprises Poetry Contest. It is reprinted with permission. She Reads Virgina Woolf by Ellaraine Lockie As she slept he’d finger-walk all the way up her underarm Soft, like snow falling over the shoulder, ear, lips Sleep melted […]
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We are pleased to present “To Mary Magdalen, with thanks”. This poem won an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Utmost Christian Poetry Contest. It is reprinted with permission: To Mary Magdalen, with thanks by Vicki Goodfellow Duke savior of pretty girls slammed into doors bloodied by steel-toed boots, tripping in heels through the night retching […]
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The print edition of today’s Springfield Republican reports: …a 22-year-old man was shot in the head while sitting at the bar at the Mardi Gras strip club downtown… Police said Colon [the victim] had been involved in a “verbal and physical altercation with several other subjects” in the Mardi Gras about 20 minutes prior to […]
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